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		<title>Stir no more</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 22:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hammer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s taken a few days for me to process this, but my startup, Stir.com, is no more.  On Friday, May 14, we shut down the servers, turned our traffic over to Singlesnet, and began to prepare for the next phase in our careers.  That day might have been one of the hardest I&#8217;ve yet experienced.
Over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Business Models</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 04:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hammer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure lots of people have tried plenty to make money of the internet, but it really comes down to two basic options.  The first, make a lot of money off of a few people.  The second is make a little of of a lot of people.  There are a few that manage to make a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I think I can do video chat better</title>
		<link>http://stevenhammer.com/2010/04/why-i-think-i-can-do-video-chat-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hammer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stevenhammer.com/?p=77</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a media darling out there that&#8217;s been hard to ignore.  It&#8217;s been on South Park, the New York times, and college campuses everywhere.  I&#8217;m talking about Chatroulette.  The issue with it is also very obvious in the coverage.  The aynomous nature of it creates some really bad behavior.  Most notably, people exposing themselves on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving from Marketer to General Manager</title>
		<link>http://stevenhammer.com/2010/04/general-manager-stir-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hammer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stevenhammer.com/?p=74</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a bit ago I was named General Manager of Stir.com.  It has been an interesting transition to stay the least.   We&#8217;ve always had a very open environment and generally had some great team chemistry.  We had a nice set of principles that everyone agreed with, and we all had a shared vision of creating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A free video chat widget from Stir.com</title>
		<link>http://stevenhammer.com/2010/04/a-free-video-chat-widget-from-stircom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hammer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stevenhammer.com/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a little thing we&#8217;ve been working on over here at Stir.  We&#8217;ve seen that instant anonymous video chat is hot right now, especially for our user base.  We created a website, stirchat, that&#8217;s starting very strong.  However, we thought we could do one better.  We&#8217;re letting everyone else in on the fun.  We&#8217;ve made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biking into work to cram exercise into my day</title>
		<link>http://stevenhammer.com/2010/03/biking-into-work-to-cram-exercise-into-my-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hammer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is finally here in Dallas, and that means that I could break out the shorts and head into the office via pedal power.  It&#8217;s great to get back on two wheels.  It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;d done it, so my ride was more than a bit slower than it used to be, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long time no blog, breaking my silence</title>
		<link>http://stevenhammer.com/2009/10/long-time-no-blog-breaking-my-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hammer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stevenhammer.com/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It feels strangely good to get back to writing again.  I&#8217;ve been oddly silent for a few months, for a reason that I&#8217;m about to explain.  During this time I learned a lesson about what really drives me to do this, and how hard it is not to write.
The reason I&#8217;ve had to be silent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The life lessons from Real Genius</title>
		<link>http://stevenhammer.com/2009/04/the-life-lessons-from-real-genius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hammer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authority]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stevenhammer.com/?p=59</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you are a kid, there are a lot of influences on you and your general outlook on life.   Parents are obvious, music is pretty common, teachers are important.  For me, there was one that was critical, and seems pretty unusual: the movie &#8216;Real Genius&#8217;  It happened to be on cable last night, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I have more scheduling conflicts on the weekend than during the week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hammer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stevenhammer.com/?p=56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the real advantages of working in a start up is the relatively limited number of meetings.  I&#8217;m no fan of the meeting.  It usually seems like there&#8217;s 10 minutes of useful information for every hour in a meeting.  I do understand that they have some merit at times, but too often they get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing our online lives</title>
		<link>http://stevenhammer.com/2009/03/managing-our-online-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hammer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity management]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stevenhammer.com/?p=53</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more interesting things about &#8220;living&#8221; online is the sheer number of places that we need to maintain our identity.  From the social networking perspective, I have three: facebook, linkedin and twitter.  All have their own followers/friends and all have different purposes in my mind.  I try to keep facebook personal, linkedin professional, [...]]]></description>
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